The Shadow Broker

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2026 and individual freedoms are severely curtailed, and state surveillance is everywhere. State Security has a Watch List, and being on it means that nothing you do or say escapes the authorities, but does the Kill List really exist And if it does, how would you know if you were on it Coded messages on a found burner phone, top-level government corruption and a shadowy mastermind who calls himself The Broker. In this climate of state control, three unlikely friends start quietly looking for connections and set in motion a deadly game of hide and seek that will change their lives forever. Trying to uncover the truth means risking your life, and nothing is more dangerous than searching for evidence of government corruption.

Author Bio

Tina Clough was born in Sweden but lives in Napier, New Zealand, on a property just outside town. She considers her life as ideal for a writer as she can divide her time between her part time work of translating and editing medical research papers and writing crime fiction, interspersed with the tasks of looking after an acre of garden, organic vegetable beds and a few hens. Tina's first venture into writing was a story called The Girl Who Lived Twice in 2013. Then came Running Towards Danger, published first in the UK and then in a New Zealand edition in 2015, and since then, she has written three books in the Hunter Grant Series, published by Lightpool Publishing: The Chinese Proverb, One Single Thing and Folded. One Single Thing was long-listed for the 2020 Ngaio Marsh Crime Writing award. The Shadow Broker (March 2022) is a political corruption thriller set in 2026 in Wellington, New Zealand. Tina has been fortunate to have quite an exciting life - after training in the Swedish Air Force reserves and studying linguistics as Stockholm University in Sweden, she has travelled extensively, done a lot of wreck diving in various parts of the world, lived in remote villages on Pacific Islands and even managed to fit in one episode of stock car racing, one of go-cart racing and a major skiing accident. Tina's philosophy of life can be summed up in two sayings: "Do it now!" and "All it takes for evil to triumph, is for good people to do nothing."